Emotion Prompting
Also called EmotionPrompt, stimulus prompting.
Emotion prompting appends emotional or motivational phrases, such as "This is very important to my career," to a prompt in an attempt to improve model performance.
Description
Li et al. reported gains on several benchmarks with such "EmotionPrompt" stimuli. Effects of these cues vary across models and tasks and are best treated as an empirical question for each setup.
Sources
- Li et al. (2023). Large Language Models Understand and Can be Enhanced by Emotional Stimuli.
Cite this entry
Protologue. (2026). Emotion Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0082). https://protologue.com/t/emotion-prompting/
BibTeX
@misc{protologue_emotion_prompting,
title = {Emotion Prompting},
author = {{Protologue}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
note = {Entry PTL-0082},
url = {https://protologue.com/t/emotion-prompting/}
}